Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 148 The Teacher's Kindness

At this time, on the second floor.

With his hair disheveled and his forehead covered in cold sweat, Minghao leaned against the wall and asked Shihao behind him, "What on earth is going on?"

This situation would be devastating for anyone.

The stairs stretch endlessly, no matter how you walk, you can never reach the first floor; and the corridor, no matter how you run, you can never reach the end!
"I don't know either... but..."

"You don't know?" Minghao rushed forward and said, "You really don't know anything?"

"What do you mean, Minghao?" Shihao looked utterly bewildered. "What exactly are you trying to say?"

“A year ago, during my birthday party, I wanted to film some scenes of the party with a DV camera. But I forgot to turn it off that night and left it on the table. Later, when I turned it on, I saw a strange scene.”

"What?"

“Wu Enying, your fiancée! Back then, she came to the dining table in the living room and touched the cake that was supposed to be reserved for Yingmin!”

"what?"

Shihao was immediately puzzled.

Everyone knew that Teacher Park valued this ceremony very much and always insisted that a piece of cake be left for Young-min. She would even place a chair in front of the table each time and solemnly put the cutlery next to it, as if Young-min would really come to eat.

That's why no one touches that cake, especially after there was a time when someone took a bite out of it!

“I saw it clearly, it was your fiancée. She went over to take the cake!”

"Impossible, how could Eun-young do such a thing..."

“I’m telling you, I saw it all clearly! Do you know what happened next? Just as her hand was about to touch the cake, it was as if some force stopped her. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t touch the cake! Later, she even picked up a knife and tried to stab the cake. At that moment, I saw her being pushed by something unseen, and she was knocked back several steps! Then, she just kept waving the knife at the air. It was a long time before she finally put the knife down and left!”

Upon hearing this, Shihao was utterly shocked and exclaimed, "This..."

“Let me tell you, no matter how I looked at it, it seemed like there was really someone in front of your fiancée! I also found it strange at the time, and even wondered if she had something wrong with her mind. But afterwards, she acted perfectly normal.”

Why don't you say it?

"If I said that, wouldn't it make it seem like I deliberately took photos? Besides, she's your fiancée, not mine. And after observing her closely, I feel she's not just mentally unstable, she's completely malicious! In the end, she's been bad since she was a child!"

Shihao quickly said, "Didn't we already say not to talk about that anymore?"

"What time is it now! Wu Enying, who exactly is she?"

Minghao continued, "Back then, she ran for class monitor with you but lost, only becoming vice class monitor. When her mother heard this, she immediately cut off her allowance for six months, scolding her for being useless and not even being able to run for class monitor in a primary school class! Also, others may not know, but I know it all very clearly! That day, I happened to be in the office helping the teacher organize homework books when Wu Enying's mother barged in and said to Teacher Park that she had donated a lot of money to the school, so why was her daughter only able to be vice class monitor? She even asked Shihao's mother how much money she had given Teacher Park! I know all these things very clearly!"

Se-ho knew about this because Eun-young had mentioned it to her. Her mother had high hopes for her, especially after divorcing her father, and became extremely strict with her education, not letting up at all even during elementary school.

Initially, Ms. Park's words of comfort helped ease her mind about not being elected class monitor, but upon returning home, she was severely scolded. Eun-young said her mother poked her head, saying how could she have given birth to such a useless child? She was given a cup of cocoa by the teacher and a few meaningless words, and she willingly resigned herself to be the vice-monitor? Her mother clearly told her that no matter the position, as long as it's a deputy, it doesn't count as a leader at all, it's only a subordinate!
Se-ho still remembered what Eun-young had relayed to him: "Do you really think your teachers treat all of you equally? If they really treated everyone equally, why would they have class monitors and vice-monitors? Eun-young, people are not equal. I donated money to the school and helped build a new running track on the playground, so it's only natural that the teachers should give you more preferential treatment! But instead, they won't even give you extra help sometimes? What kind of teacher is that!"

Every time Se-ho saw Eun-young say these things, a sinister look would appear on his face. And he felt... that Eun-young's mother's words had a great influence on her, to the point that she harbored a deep resentment towards Teacher Park, resenting that the teacher insisted on holding a class election instead of directly promoting her to class monitor.

However, what truly had an extreme impact on Wu Enying was the menstrual incident involving Meizi.

This wasn't a big deal in itself, but many people saw Eun-young giving her the tissue.

Eun-young's mother regularly provides aid and donations to the school, even contributing to the students' snacks during breaks. Therefore, most people know that Eun-young's mother sells feminine hygiene products, and many have seen their brand of sanitary napkins advertised on television.

So many people laughed at her. Her mother's sanitary napkin commercials were frequently on TV, and she didn't even know what menstruation was. A lot of people mocked and ridiculed her behind her back. Eun-young's initial kindness towards Mi-ja was instead used as a laughingstock. Moreover, when she later told her mother about it, her mother scolded her for lacking common sense and embarrassing her!

When Eun-young and Se-ho talked about these things, they always said, "Teacher Park insisted on giving a public lecture, and even made Jung-won take Mi-ja home to change her sanitary napkin. Why? Jung-won is a boy! He'd rather have a boy take Mi-ja home than let me, whose family sells sanitary napkins, take her home to handle it? As a result, everyone laughed at me, made fun of me about this, and gave me weird nicknames! It's all Teacher Park's fault! And Jung-won, he probably laughed at me too! He's a boy, but he could have handled this better than me! He's all nice to me on the surface, but who knows what he's really thinking! And Mi-ja, does she really not know that I'm being laughed at behind my back?"

Minghao, on the other hand, knew another secret: he knew about something Eunyoung had done back then.

It was only when he talked to Se-ho about Eun-young that he learned the reason why Eun-young did that thing back then.

Eun-young knew that it was Jung-won who took Mi-ja to his house and asked his mother to deal with Mi-ja.

This incident fueled her resentment, and her hatred drove her to seek revenge on Zheng Yuan. So, she found an opportunity to make a phone call to Zheng Yuan's family's shop from school.

Back then, there were things like Yellow Pages, where you could look up other people's phone numbers. Then, they would cover the receiver with a cloth, say they were Zhengyuan's classmate, and lie to Zhengyuan's mother, saying that Zhengyuan had diarrhea so badly at school that he was being laughed at by his classmates.

She hung up the phone after she finished speaking.

Minghao happened to be nearby at the time, but Eunyoung was probably too nervous to notice him, so only he knew that Eunyoung had made the call.

Only he knew why Zhengyuan's mother rushed to the school in such a hurry that day, only to be hit and killed by a car on the road in front of the school.

Eun-young didn't tell anyone about this, including Se-ho.

Minghao only told Shihao about this, and the latter was also shocked when he found out.

It was through Se-ho that Myung-ho learned why Eun-young made that phone call.

But in the end, it was just an accident. Se-ho felt that Eun-young must be going through a lot of pain and suffering, so he didn't plan to reveal the matter to her again.

They all believed that a teacher who educates every student equally and teaches them principles of life is naturally a good teacher. However, this doesn't mean everyone thinks that way.

For some people, being treated "equally" is painful in itself.

"What does this have to do with what we're going through now...?"

“I’ve thought about it again,” Minghao pointed to his head, “Why did she move Yingmin’s cake? Why was she waving a knife at thin air? Did she see Yingmin’s ghost?”

"How could there be ghosts..."

"If there are no ghosts, why is the house like this now? Can you explain it?"

Then, Minghao looked around again, took a deep breath, and said, "I've been thinking about it carefully, could it be that Yingmin... was killed by Eunyoung?"

"Are you kidding me?"

"You told me, didn't you? What is Eun-young's true thought?"

"Yes……"

Eun-young told Se-ho that, influenced by her mother, she always felt that the teacher hadn't given her the treatment she deserved and was just a hypocrite. Later, her mother repeatedly asked Teacher Park to give Eun-young special tutoring in math. Although Eun-young's overall grades were quite good, she was still lacking in geometry, and her performance was somewhat inconsistent.

However, Ms. Park firmly refused to give any students individual tutoring, stating that school rules strictly prohibited teachers from tutoring students outside of school. The mother, however, didn't believe the teacher truly believed this; instead, she felt Eun-young lacked academic talent and didn't want to spend more time on her. In the end, she subjected Eun-young to endless verbal abuse, saying that if she couldn't even handle an elementary school teacher, how would she inherit her company?
For this reason, Eun-young developed a deep fear of learning math as a child, especially geometry, which she did terribly. Later, her hands would even tremble whenever she picked up a compass. With poor math grades, getting into a good university was naturally even more difficult. So much so that after her mother remarried and had a younger brother, she simply handed over her business to him, completely abandoning Eun-young, saying that she could just quit her job after getting married, since she was just a useless person who had been good for nothing since elementary school.

This made her resent Teacher Park even more!

Just then, Miko called her elementary school classmate and told her about the teacher's current situation.

“She knew the teacher’s address, so she came to see her a month before the teacher’s birthday,” Minghao continued, offering his speculation. “But before she even reached the teacher’s house, she encountered Yingmin wearing a rabbit mask on the beach. At that time, she already harbored intense hatred for the teacher, and then she met the teacher’s son. What do you think she would say?”

They made sarcastic remarks, saying that the teacher is now paralyzed on one side and can only spend his days in a wheelchair.

Or is it that... her greatest retribution is that she gave birth to you, this deformed child?

Then, she got into an argument with Young-min, and during the argument, she picked up a stone...

It slammed hard onto Yingmin's head!

"She killed...Yingmin?"

"Yes. Actually, I've always had this suspicion in my mind, but I just didn't have any evidence!"

Minghao was unaware that most of his speculations were correct, except for one point he hadn't deduced:

After Young-min was murdered, the vengeful spirit he transformed into killed Eun-young on the same day!

(End of this chapter)